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Sep 18, 2016

TRUCKING UP * USA: After worst-in-four-years print

* Indiana - Freight Index rises faster than capacity index in August

--- For the third time in the past four months, the freight volume index is a nice change after last month’s worst-in-four-years print, according to trucking industry analysts at ACT Research... The recent shift to positive in this metric since May suggests that if conditions are not exactly improving at this point, they have at least stopped getting worse...The big driver of the positive “net capacity” outcome in August was a sharp spike upwards in the freight volume component of the index. Just as freight growth and capacity additions showed weakness in July, strength in both metrics in August are related to seasonality: Freight starts moving in August following plant shutdowns in July even as truckers come back to work following their own vacations...Columbus, IND, USA - Trucking News - September 16, 2016